tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32636212498630516172024-03-14T07:55:47.814-04:00Ancient Geek Fumes<center>A procrastinator’s perspective––and related fumes and opinion rants from a dinosaur technologist and conservative-Libertarian. Infrequent postings on wildlife, U.S. Military, Civil War, electronics technology, computing, heroism, genealogy, and Conservative political opinion.</center>~__"DJ"__~http://www.blogger.com/profile/16538343712804412354noreply@blogger.comBlogger147125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3263621249863051617.post-9042522684916707182024-02-24T12:31:00.014-05:002024-03-14T07:55:05.911-04:00Antietam Battlefield National Park and Cemetery <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #1d2228; font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: 18px;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEcojeLvbt-cgDkCdQg4uX4vFoqN1Hmd2g-3TH2dDRS-GGNKKHfRVTUCt4knetqRCusZOuboOqxd2tiTnXi-ezWjlS-lqsGnxmODPVgBCWxCsUdKZbaExi0RGqKdEoYqIxUdljlc4175lGMrD4Ldfs0YEVqRMA1cBDoiF65c2wmMRd3r4J3PKTaNxk6it-/s2482/Vols%20read%20names.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1489" data-original-width="2482" height="192" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEcojeLvbt-cgDkCdQg4uX4vFoqN1Hmd2g-3TH2dDRS-GGNKKHfRVTUCt4knetqRCusZOuboOqxd2tiTnXi-ezWjlS-lqsGnxmODPVgBCWxCsUdKZbaExi0RGqKdEoYqIxUdljlc4175lGMrD4Ldfs0YEVqRMA1cBDoiF65c2wmMRd3r4J3PKTaNxk6it-/s320/Vols%20read%20names.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #1d2228; font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: 18px;">Volunteers in line to read names of Union Warriors interred</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: 18px;">at </span><i style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: 18px;"><b>Antietam National Cemetery</b></i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: 18px;">, D Paul </span></span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #1d2228; font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: 18px;">photo</span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #1d2228; font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: 18px;">, Sep 2017.</span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #1d2228; font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: 18px;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #1d2228; font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: 18px;">In September 2017, I traveled to Sharpsburg, MD (The Antietam Battlefield National Park) for the re-dedication of the Antietam National Cemetery (150th Anniversary Ceremony). A paternal Great-Great-Grandfather William Moegling was wounded at the Battle of Antietam 17 Sep 1862 while fighting as an enlisted corporal with the 97th Infantry Regiment of New York State Volunteers (aka "The 3rd Oneida Regiment" or "Conkling Rifles"). The 97th New York was raised in Boonville, NY with volunteers primarily hailing from Oneida County, Lewis County, and Herkimer County in New York State.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #1d2228; font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: 18px;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #1d2228; font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: 18px;">Click <a href="https://museum.dmna.ny.gov/unit-history/infantry-1/97th-infantry-regiment" target="_blank">HERE</a> for more details courtesy of the New York State Department of Military and Naval Affairs website.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #1d2228; font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: 18px;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: 18px;">The g</span><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: 18px;">uest speaker at the 150th Antietam National Cemetery Anniversary ceremony was the expert Civil War author/professor Dr. Gary Gallagher -- a great speaker -- very impressive, funny, interesting, and personally found myself in near 100% agreement with Dr. Gallagher's Civil War positions and thinking. I've recently come across a few of Dr. Gallagher's talks on the Internet at YouTube, they take some time to review. But these talks are highly worth your time for those who wish to be better informed on the hows, whereas, and whys of Civil War leadership and soldiers and why we these eight score+ years later need to remember that difficult 19th centruy rebellion period that nearly made us two countrys. One of Dr. Gallagher's very fine talks is selected here and available on YouTube -- click <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU1bNbHpiFc&t=63s" target="_blank">HERE</a> to view.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #1d2228; font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: 18px;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #1d2228; font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: 18px;">On Dr. Gallagher's "the preservation of the union message" as <b><i>the </i></b>majority reason for Union soldier fighting, I recall a decade past visiting the grave of another Great-Great Grandfather Private Albert Odell at Bath National Cemetery (in Steuben County, NY), late of the 91st Infantry Regiment of New York State Volunteers. The cemetery plaque on the main soldiers and sailors monument reads "In memory of the Soldiers and Sailors of the War for the PRESERVATION OF THE UNION who died in the New York State Soldiers and Sailors Home." I recall being surprised by the engraved monument plaque statement "...The War For The Preservation Of The Union" -- recall thinking I've never seen this language used on a Civil War monument before. In my experience, the Civil War is most frequently referenced as "The War Of The Rebellion." Of course the union was preserved as a major outcome by the Union in Civil War, but any basic 20th/21st Century student of the war would think it was fought mainly to free the slaves. Not so... and freeing slaves was not the majority cause why those union soldiers pick-up a rifle and killed other men (or to be killed). </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: 18px;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAWQXu4EE8p_6P6DXgvqC1I8KgWPJEBBIICu1DolcnvAfyZD5fqRJCE8q3IliYlTOYApK0sR_53oMUzlkdSZu19CYJ87RVs8KeE1lo92gSgqgYu8z11VIHDvnMpsaz7rnOrFrWwKagCSOeUjUJOe27lj8stSZ67QoAXkkG7R6s69wJaFe_-lysPpRd7hlq/s1024/Bath%20National%20Cemetery%201.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="768" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAWQXu4EE8p_6P6DXgvqC1I8KgWPJEBBIICu1DolcnvAfyZD5fqRJCE8q3IliYlTOYApK0sR_53oMUzlkdSZu19CYJ87RVs8KeE1lo92gSgqgYu8z11VIHDvnMpsaz7rnOrFrWwKagCSOeUjUJOe27lj8stSZ67QoAXkkG7R6s69wJaFe_-lysPpRd7hlq/s320/Bath%20National%20Cemetery%201.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: 18px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>The Soldiers and Sailors Monument at Bath National Cemetery, Bath, New York,</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>photo dated May 2011 by DJ Paul.</b></div></span><p></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv9ShZ5iaifUMM3B0zWfW8ZJA2mfS76rx44AG8fI05OSkz9Jv04SXp8SpTLRphk8GGPjVG7BwIOKV5YsGUHI0yvVErfAyEdTxLAiYZEkNiJ-wqW8KMakyS9vBpqP4utcCR-zK76PRPPKPNLkaM8NzHLuLlfXc_ehvuVdpIpZnGcvok0tzfugSJD5lgEUfB/s302/Plaque%20at%20BNC.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="193" data-original-width="302" height="193" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv9ShZ5iaifUMM3B0zWfW8ZJA2mfS76rx44AG8fI05OSkz9Jv04SXp8SpTLRphk8GGPjVG7BwIOKV5YsGUHI0yvVErfAyEdTxLAiYZEkNiJ-wqW8KMakyS9vBpqP4utcCR-zK76PRPPKPNLkaM8NzHLuLlfXc_ehvuVdpIpZnGcvok0tzfugSJD5lgEUfB/s1600/Plaque%20at%20BNC.JPG" width="302" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Closeup of Bath National Cemetery Soldiers and Sailors Monument Plaque </b></div><p><br /></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: 18px;"><br /></span></p>~__"DJ"__~http://www.blogger.com/profile/16538343712804412354noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3263621249863051617.post-78712679623477151572024-02-17T09:12:00.005-05:002024-02-17T10:32:25.648-05:00Take A Look At This Happy American Legion News<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsizQCdBIaDScCE3EuRXQOJ2Vv_NpHZqlJZ2TOfGTQ7B_KvOPQwKZ_5z2m_37OlxCdn-jt39pwgmVUhwgeDODxgx2FyyQqrJQB68GWWsUwKyW6guje2s74hB8PKtlibKHNb1GJzM1aD9eSrYUPNNRCcc1V15nZ5zKx6JY2HM4YM20lSg2q5viCtj-jBcXn/s329/Head%20Gear.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="329" data-original-width="328" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsizQCdBIaDScCE3EuRXQOJ2Vv_NpHZqlJZ2TOfGTQ7B_KvOPQwKZ_5z2m_37OlxCdn-jt39pwgmVUhwgeDODxgx2FyyQqrJQB68GWWsUwKyW6guje2s74hB8PKtlibKHNb1GJzM1aD9eSrYUPNNRCcc1V15nZ5zKx6JY2HM4YM20lSg2q5viCtj-jBcXn/s320/Head%20Gear.JPG" width="319" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Click <a href="https://www.legion.org/honor/261117/sailors-can-finally-put-their-hands-their-pockets-navy-unveils-changes-uniform-rules?utm_campaign=Source+Code+Here&utm_content=HONOR&utm_term=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Adestra" target="_blank">HERE</a> to read this very important NAUTICAL NEWS... </p><p><span style="background-color: #fcff01; font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: 18px;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: 18px;"><b>So glad to learn that sailors can now walk around with their hands in pockets, that naval gals can wear false eyelashes in uniform </b></span><b style="font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: 18px;">(and I guess guys too, we gotta be gender-neutral don't we[?])</b><b style="font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: 18px;">, that naval chaplin's prayers were answered and they can now wear some sort of dolpin/wings uniform device, and lastly that naval drone pilots can wear wings. My GOD, you are pulling my leg here... right?</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: 18px;">And what's up with this new authorization allowing female sailors to wear the tiara as an optional uniform component when donned in dinner dress blues and/or white jacket uniforms. How and why is this non-uniform change in naval uniform regulations necessary? In interest of full disclosure, the author had to Google "</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: 18px;">tiara" being an old fart male, out of touch, and unfamiliar with this device. So exactly how is it the tiara device makes military dinner-clothing uniform? It seems obvious any such device-ware makes the uniform less uniform. Isn't that the purpose of tiara wear in the first place -- to draw more notice and attention to those wearing the most beautiful tiara? My gosh, what military genius thought of this? And is the Brazilian Butt Enhancement authorization next on your agenda?</span></b></p><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: 18px; outline: none; text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">I'm sittin' and reading this American Legion news release, and thinkin' this is the kind of miltary BS (aka FUBAR) that happens when we are not engaged in an active declared war... got to give those unnecessary senior officer billet-holders who are now polishing a desk chair with their butts (mostly flag rank) something to do down there in DC. I'm so glad to be a former sailor... and naval management would certainly be happy to do without some of us with a similar take on this matter (asked to leave or forced retirement).</b></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: 18px; outline: none; text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><br /></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: 18px; outline: none; text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: 18px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: 18px;">WTF, </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: 18px;">over and out.</span></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: 18px; outline: none; text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: 18px;"> </span></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: 18px; outline: none; text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: 18px;"><br /></span></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: 18px; outline: none; text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: 18px;"><br /></span></b></div>~__"DJ"__~http://www.blogger.com/profile/16538343712804412354noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3263621249863051617.post-38781993992846886932024-01-12T10:37:00.000-05:002024-01-12T10:37:25.710-05:00Serious Instruction On Work Place Touching <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKStyTWy-7TQt_pSmUnMllx7-ugZuM8vbrtOJHn8zzNp13tUzmxHHO7_xJSg0IFslWjN457UmckqSiCK9wDHBdcgMBzleom7rWeQBVdSjdyxx0_bXEcrKJjg08IIRKQ07SY7m6YuuO3RSeqLPv51pj9i9Hh8pcsBcFMcdcFOMB1Fd7GxrQ3ipytfTjinGf/s1432/Poster.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1432" data-original-width="1163" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKStyTWy-7TQt_pSmUnMllx7-ugZuM8vbrtOJHn8zzNp13tUzmxHHO7_xJSg0IFslWjN457UmckqSiCK9wDHBdcgMBzleom7rWeQBVdSjdyxx0_bXEcrKJjg08IIRKQ07SY7m6YuuO3RSeqLPv51pj9i9Hh8pcsBcFMcdcFOMB1Fd7GxrQ3ipytfTjinGf/s320/Poster.JPG" width="260" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Long
ago I worked with a female Navy Chief Petty Officer who once told
me -</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><i>"I
don't mind sexual harassment, it's that harassment without the sex
that ticks me off."</i></b></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 13pt; text-align: left;">That
CPO would likely be fired in today's "touchy-feely" </span><span style="font-size: 17.3333px; text-align: left;">PC</span><span style="font-size: 17.3333px; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13pt; text-align: left;">Navy (or negative comments may certainly be inserted in her official record). I worked with a few female Navy
Chiefs... to be honest I'm not sure which one said this to me, but I
do recall the remark was made just after we attended a 3-hour
mandatory sexual harassment lecture. I got a huge laugh hearing that comment.</span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 13pt; text-align: left;"><br /></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 13pt; text-align: left;">Actually was told this in a lecture like first graders might be regarding
work-related touching. There are "green zones" good and
OK touching, "yellow-zones" questionable and uncomfortable
touching, and then to "red-zones" contacts -- I guess a
slap on the ass, making the Grab, etc. touches that are obviously worthy of
formal charges.</span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 13pt; text-align: left;"><br /></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 13pt; text-align: left;">It's so stupid... anyone with a brain should know what
inappropriate touches are... and if this conduct is found the offender should
be gone (fired) by sunset. I remember the sexual harassment lecture
was delivered by a female Navy Commander (a lawyer) who flew in from
Washington just to deliver the nasty conduct lecture. Timing was
just after the infamous Vegas hotel "Tail Hook" incident involving naval flying personnel following Gulf War I (1991) – guess those
Navy Airedales watched too many older Hollywood movies and attempted
duplication of unacceptable conduct depicted in some now unseemly </span><span style="font-size: 17.3333px; text-align: left;">movie</span><span style="font-size: 17.3333px; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13pt; text-align: left;">scenes.</span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 13pt; text-align: left;"><br /></span></p>~__"DJ"__~http://www.blogger.com/profile/16538343712804412354noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3263621249863051617.post-70137039182004868282023-11-20T14:07:00.002-05:002023-11-22T14:15:30.825-05:00State and Local Fiddling With Election Operations <p> </p><p></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Check
out the attached chart addressing ID checks. Very interesting, many
of the below cited requirements are known to be true, and I can't
certify all are 100% accurate (but the chart's point is so very
true). The U.S. Constitution leaves most of the specific general
election day mandates regarding operation, policy, and procedures to the
individual states (otherwise stated more correctly, election law,
policies, and administration are set by the individual state
legislatures). This U.S. Constitutional provision seems to be a
problem full of opportunities for corrupt and unfair federal general
elections. Changes in federal general election policy and
administration are NOT the responsibility of any court or any of the
politically-selected-appointed local/state election board(s) -- unless the U.S. Constitution is first suspended. Change
authority in established and historical election operations rests
exclusively with the individual state legislatures – </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>PERIOD
</b></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">(although
some states may have delegated this election change authority -- such
delegated election change authority is itself likely unconstitutional). A
U.S. Constitutional amendment proposal to make general election
operations and procedures more consistent among the states would
almost certainly fail since the Democrat controlled states would
likely disapprove. Many state leaders like this election day policy
constitutional power as granted to the individual states where
general election policy, rules, and procedures can be manipulated on
the fly to favor a Big-D election political outcome.</span></span></span></span></span>
</p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC7kzq0qOY4q5oBVgOlGYOk1xeLTcKXUg-1skjXSrBsHfuatqMyx4gL_-6p2jyWiRcQXA_UwZtnPaUW0Ydd6iGZZLNOom0gJD5UWl9FseIKCisoJSan5xtWAEsfFZ3dT8OXcCnWojwIDp9tnTfrmEzJLYJharIPCygGnsLT8AFIRTJxQxH7285gyD1x-0L/s518/Required%20ID.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="481" data-original-width="518" height="371" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC7kzq0qOY4q5oBVgOlGYOk1xeLTcKXUg-1skjXSrBsHfuatqMyx4gL_-6p2jyWiRcQXA_UwZtnPaUW0Ydd6iGZZLNOom0gJD5UWl9FseIKCisoJSan5xtWAEsfFZ3dT8OXcCnWojwIDp9tnTfrmEzJLYJharIPCygGnsLT8AFIRTJxQxH7285gyD1x-0L/w400-h371/Required%20ID.jpeg" width="400" /></a></span></span></span></div><span style="color: #1d2228;"><span style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span><p></p><p></p><div dir="ltr" style="outline: none;"><span style="font-size: small; outline: none;">P.S. I would add purchasing a can of spray paint... this perhaps local or state mandated ID check at least typically true in many New York State general stores. <img alt="Emoji" class="yiv4947573014yahoo-emoji-wrapper" height="16" src="https://ecp.yusercontent.com/mail?url=https%3A%2F%2Fs.yimg.com%2Fnq%2Fyemoji_assets%2Flatest%2Fyemoji_assets%2F1f914.png&t=1700489283&ymreqid=940c809d-bffe-a092-1c1b-6b0001014400&sig=nU9MW5DbbEk6jzSp1xwkxQ--~D" style="outline: none; padding: 0px 2px; text-indent: -9999px; vertical-align: middle;" title="Emoji" width="16" /> dj</span></div><p><br /></p><blockquote style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; outline: none;" type="cite"></blockquote>~__"DJ"__~http://www.blogger.com/profile/16538343712804412354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3263621249863051617.post-86012154090313455802023-11-02T10:35:00.003-04:002023-11-02T10:43:59.708-04:00Herkimer County Now Past Peak On Halloween Eve<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhP9udOSGDfc4vlGOA4yljXn7I2CsVUvgGL6Oluh9jUiUscUPJJaqovf-7UTZ4Q3XNPCYM3kxmDpH5a7Bp7uLalZcVZxnDuE3rv8iKa7iTneJLWw20Zr2QsAlKvqmIqAWxU8etIKOZ0hj-NfCh-xAdySn_c5wi0rsGCpIZXDs7WSSKMVdxt7yDgTa2lWN5k/s4128/TLBs%20Favorite%20Tree%201.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1408" data-original-width="4128" height="136" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhP9udOSGDfc4vlGOA4yljXn7I2CsVUvgGL6Oluh9jUiUscUPJJaqovf-7UTZ4Q3XNPCYM3kxmDpH5a7Bp7uLalZcVZxnDuE3rv8iKa7iTneJLWw20Zr2QsAlKvqmIqAWxU8etIKOZ0hj-NfCh-xAdySn_c5wi0rsGCpIZXDs7WSSKMVdxt7yDgTa2lWN5k/w400-h136/TLBs%20Favorite%20Tree%201.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>A Favored Leaf-Peeping Tree<br /> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">The later October winds and rains experienced in the couple of days before Halloween really did a final wipe-out on much of the local Autumn 2023 beauty, many of our trees now without their varied fall colored leaves. Just a few of our more hearty and stubborn Oak trees still refusing to succumb to those recent stiff winds, rain, snow, ice, and graupel (soft pellets) experinced yesterday. As Ma Nature ushers in November, a sturdy few trees won't let their fine colored leaves fly. </p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Another All Hallow's Eve image:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqa-I61dyrzOZKwOzZDD8HSOr9_CDUME3Sc4dKFwZk5RArvOsnF2e5EKzElVFhw1vfkvFM7UVPxwyStGG-CPN1vNtWC0K1syac07K5AXJuldHI0nsEn7q-68gDTd78_BVJxEO-NssnId8AGdgRZYkHlkbOtzSP7NXajZjf5P8du_XTm1qHSD3VISaDnNXM/s4128/Northeast%20view.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1972" data-original-width="4128" height="153" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqa-I61dyrzOZKwOzZDD8HSOr9_CDUME3Sc4dKFwZk5RArvOsnF2e5EKzElVFhw1vfkvFM7UVPxwyStGG-CPN1vNtWC0K1syac07K5AXJuldHI0nsEn7q-68gDTd78_BVJxEO-NssnId8AGdgRZYkHlkbOtzSP7NXajZjf5P8du_XTm1qHSD3VISaDnNXM/s320/Northeast%20view.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Northeast View - some more hearty trees </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p><br /></p><p> </p>~__"DJ"__~http://www.blogger.com/profile/16538343712804412354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3263621249863051617.post-9903478544053471542023-10-08T13:00:00.004-04:002023-11-02T09:33:51.814-04:00Pre-Memorial Day Burial Ground Visits To Install Revolutionary War Veteran Grave Markers And Earned American Flags On The Graves Of Five Connecticut Rebellion Heros. <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><i>Our Revolutionary Stanton Men Of Connecticut</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><u>JULY 2023 UPDATE:</u></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b> Southeast Connecticut cemetery visits in June 2023 revealed the various Stanton Family Revolutionary War Veteran graves remain in good shape, and each grave had a fresh Memorial American Flag installed. Many thanks to the unknown and caring Connecticut residents who are actively tending our ancestor's graves. </b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Metal Revolutionary War Veteran Grave Markers and American Flags were installed in ten inches of concrete during this mid-May 2021 Southeastern Connecticut trip to Groton, New London, Ledyard, North Stonington, and Griswold Connecticut to visit a few older burial grounds. Each man introduced in this post is a distant paternal cousin and a Revolutionary War Veteran. The cousin relationships apply to my siblings and to my paternal 1st cousins as cited in the following individual brief biographies. Other interested family genealogists need to calculate their own personal cousin relationships to these Revolutionary War Veterans. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqA-uMwgqEulw0kWdQzi2PM4R_dOat8ZL7X5LO7A6M16IF_oouqz1byzyuLm35RWphOUvLJKmYBx6liX9w5GrTY0Zkh_By8oeNaMJLD8VU1Zv3cVtqM3us5UqYQwgQKpcg8Khe4Z_VoExL/s2048/Captain+Ebenezer+Stanton+Gets+War+Vet+Market.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1055" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqA-uMwgqEulw0kWdQzi2PM4R_dOat8ZL7X5LO7A6M16IF_oouqz1byzyuLm35RWphOUvLJKmYBx6liX9w5GrTY0Zkh_By8oeNaMJLD8VU1Zv3cVtqM3us5UqYQwgQKpcg8Khe4Z_VoExL/s320/Captain+Ebenezer+Stanton+Gets+War+Vet+Market.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">U.S. Army Veteran Captain Ebenezer Stanton is a Revolutionary War Veteran serving over three years of active duty as a junior officer in Captain Amos Stanton's 6th Company of the 2nd Additional Infantry Regiment of the Connecticut Line, under Commanding Officer Colonel Henry Sherburne. Ebenezer later served in the trusted staff positions of Regimental Quartermaster and then as Regimental Paymaster. Following his three-year tour of Army active duty, Ebenezer Stanton was named Master and Commander of the privateer vessel <i><b>COUNT de GRASSE</b></i> in May 1782, a schooner with a crew of about 30 men operating mainly on Long Island Sound. Official records show that Captain Ebenezer Stanton and his crew captured several small craft and cargo from Yankee wartime profiteers doing business and selling supplies to the British enemy. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">In 1780, General George Washington conducted a massive military reorganization of the patriot army he commanded, and one element of this reorganization was to combine the 2nd Regiment of Connecticut Line with an existing Rhode Island Regiment. The 2nd Infantry Regiment of Connecticut Line was formally disestablished effective 1 Jan 1781. All or most of the regiment's officer corps were allowed to resign their commission during 1780, Ebenezer's resignation was effective in April 1780. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Following the USA victory, Captain Ebenezer Stanton owned and operated an ocean-going trading ship as Master and Commander, a ship that engaged in Mediterranean Trading. This earns him the Captaincy prefix he used in business and personal communication and as inscribed on his gravestone as found in Cedar Grove Cemetery, New London, CT.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Captain Ebenezer Stanton is a paternal 3rd cousin-8xRemoved, and a Great-Great-Grandson of the Stanton Family colonial progenitor Thomas Stanton Sr. (d.1677, in Stonington, CT).</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Captain Ebenezer Stanton's beloved wife Mary "Molly" (Smith) Stanton, the daughter of Colonel Oliver Smith and Mrs. Mary Noyes (Denison) Smith, she is presented in a previous post that some genealogist readers will find interesting. Click <a href="https://geeksbwe.blogspot.com/2020/03/ms-molly-smiths-denison-and-stanton.html" target="_blank">HERE</a> to learn things about wife Mary. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii4WB3LOzFt5N_R-qKMjWQYbcCuf2iu8suHsHW5q7sFPhN2-nGFxynHeWlwRb3Ok-UzJsNhUiLQKey5b7lLxsOQ4zTz32BwxXf4KmaqKNRjp1FnAxqik08zfH0Srt_ebmZb_h7U270cT0n/s1560/COL+Oliver+and+Mrs+Mary+Smith.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1173" data-original-width="1560" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii4WB3LOzFt5N_R-qKMjWQYbcCuf2iu8suHsHW5q7sFPhN2-nGFxynHeWlwRb3Ok-UzJsNhUiLQKey5b7lLxsOQ4zTz32BwxXf4KmaqKNRjp1FnAxqik08zfH0Srt_ebmZb_h7U270cT0n/s320/COL+Oliver+and+Mrs+Mary+Smith.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The memorial gravestones
of Colonel Oliver Smith and his lovely wife Mrs. Mary Noyes (Denison)
Smith are found in Smith Lake Cemetery, Town of Groton, CT (aka
Poquonock Bridge). OBTW, the wives of Revolutionary
military warriors are also the rebellion heroes who single-handedly managed the home and family left behind while their
men went to war. Colonel Smith was initially a Captain and the commanding officer of a company of Stonington Militiamen when a
British ship (the frigate HMS <i><b>Rose</b></i>) cannoned the small seaport community of Stonington, Connecticut.
The <b><i>Rose</i></b> attack is reported to have caused little damage to
Stonington properties, almost equivalent to what is today called a
drive-by shooting. The 20-gun frigate HMS <i><b>Rose</b></i> was
likely en route to harass the larger seaports of Newport and Boston. </span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In July 1776, Connecticut General Assembly appoints Oliver Smith Lt Colonel and commanding officer of the 8th Connecticut State Militia Regiment of Foot (aka Infantry) in New London County. He is advanced to full colonel grade later in the rebellion. Many pay records of the nine companies assigned to the 8th Regiment of the State of Connecticut Militia, signed by COL Oliver Smith, stand testament to his Revolutionary War command of over 500 Southeast Connecticut Militiamen. Early in the Revolution, Colonel Smith is reportedly an aide to General George Washington and was with General Washington for a time at Valley Forge during the winter of 1777/78. </span></span></p></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Colonel Oliver Smith is a paternal 2nd cousin-7xRemoved and a Great-Great Grandson of Captain George Denison Sr. (d.1694 in Hartford). Another cousin-relationship exists via his maternal grandmother Ms. Mary Stanton (d.1724), where via this link Oliver is a Great-Great Grandson of Thomas Stanton Sr. (d.1677). </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwJUtZyuV9UgO8wteK9gESfzqsk01_OeDeZqNeI5pHiAmwB5Pci47_ayfE4r9sO69r-cbQ8JOEWtCTdbvU2bK9J5r6r2jYG-ivE7Jb-Vtv7oLb9nqd-mfDskr5wPRygARJkFdhxsp6i_pm/s2048/Captain+Amos+Stanton.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1537" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwJUtZyuV9UgO8wteK9gESfzqsk01_OeDeZqNeI5pHiAmwB5Pci47_ayfE4r9sO69r-cbQ8JOEWtCTdbvU2bK9J5r6r2jYG-ivE7Jb-Vtv7oLb9nqd-mfDskr5wPRygARJkFdhxsp6i_pm/s320/Captain+Amos+Stanton.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Captain Amos Stanton recieves a new earned bronze Revolutionary War Veteran Grave Marker. Amos' first commitment to the fledgling rebellion is documented by early 1776 service as a 2nd Lieutenant of Marines aboard the Connecticut State Navy's Row Galley <i style="font-weight: bold;">SHARK, </i>a vessel under the command of Captain Theophilus "Theo" Stanton (Theo is Amos' paternal 1st cousin 1xR). In July 1776, <b><i>SHARK</i></b> and two sister Connecticut Navy Row Galley vessels <i><b>WHITING </b></i>and <i><b>CRANE</b></i> were ordered to the Hudson River (then referred to as "The North River"). In late fall 1776, the Galley <i><b>SHARK</b></i> was moved further up river where the crew was apparently relieved and the vessel placed under the care of ship's carpenter Fanning. In Spring 1777 <b><i>SHARK </i></b>was transferred to the Continental Army. <b><i>SHARK </i></b>was not captured by British forces or burned by her crew to prevent capture as some reports speculate. <u>NOTE</u>: new information suggests that <b><i>SHARK </i></b>escaped the three early October 1776 Lower Hudson River battles; whereas, her two sister vessels Connecticut Navy row galley <b><i>WHITING </i></b>was evidently burned and row galley <b><i>CRANE </i></b>was captured by British Forces after her crew intentionally ran aground and abandoned her.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Early in 1777, Amos was awarded an active-duty Connecticut Line Lieutenant's commission with the U.S. Army 2nd Infantry Regiment of the Connecticut Line, a regiment commanded by Colonel Henry Sherburne. <i><b>SHARK </b></i>commanding officer Captain Theophilus Stanton's letter of recommendation to Colonel Sherburne cites Amos' competence with military guns and munitions and was no doubt somewhat responsible for Colonel Sherbunre's appointment. In late 1777 Amos was awarded a Connecticut Line captaincy and assigned as company commander of the 6th Company within Colonel Sherburne's Connecticut Line Infantry Regiment. Official records show Company Commander Captain Stanton detailed as "On Command" -- a term then used to indicate detached duty from the regiment, perhaps in performance of special trust assignments. Records show Captain Amos Stanton served on several courts-martial boards. Captain Amos Stanton resigned his U.S. Army Connecticut Line military commission in April 1780. All or most officers under Colonel Sherburne's command resigned their commissions in this mid-1780 period, these and many other U.S. Army resignations are part of a total military reorganization plan authorized by General George Washington. Strong evidence suggests that General Washington's rebel army became unmanageable in the later rebellion years, holding too many Chiefs (officers) and not enough Indians (enlisted men -- aka, the cannon fodder) to carry on an effective fight against the British forces. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Captain Amos Stanton was killed in action on 6 Sep 1781 in defense of Fort Griswold, Groton, Connecticut in what is now called the Revolutionary War <i style="font-weight: bold;">Battle of Groton Heights. </i><span> Among over one hundred other local men, Amos Stanton had answered an alarm issued by area commander Colonel William Ledyard for local militiamen to assist in the defense of Fort Griswold. </span>Captain Amos Stanton's<i style="font-weight: bold;"> </i>remains were interred at Stanton Cemetery in the Town of Groton, on the property then owned by the Stanton Family. The burying ground is just a few short miles north of Fort Griswold, this land is now part of the Town of Ledyard since Ledyard was formed from Groton Township lands in the mid-1820s.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Captain Amos Stanton is a paternal 3rd cousin-8xRemoved, and a Great-Great Grandson of the Stanton Family colonial progenitor Thomas Stanton Sr. (d.1677, in Stonington, CT) </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u>Footnote:</u> Seems obvious that Captain Amos Stanton should be provided a new federally-supplied memorial gravestone since his present gravestone is both broken and unreadable. A new suitable federally-furnished gravestone is his earned right. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivB0_bHQMIgWoTil-cTGCxj4d3u8Lo4TzAvli33SdQgy1pC2_7KjGlgfAXstjdK4nQngnBViqneDH_4y5CDFzGxcm7x8L0Ilt2pOVf_vRC3EAII-vds74AqJ_Nv7Y6S1D77o1vE6ZWYV2o/s1112/Brothers+Enoch+and+Daniel+Stanton+-+KIA.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="974" data-original-width="1112" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivB0_bHQMIgWoTil-cTGCxj4d3u8Lo4TzAvli33SdQgy1pC2_7KjGlgfAXstjdK4nQngnBViqneDH_4y5CDFzGxcm7x8L0Ilt2pOVf_vRC3EAII-vds74AqJ_Nv7Y6S1D77o1vE6ZWYV2o/s320/Brothers+Enoch+and+Daniel+Stanton+-+KIA.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;">Aged 36 years Lieutenant Enoch Stanton and his brother aged 25 years Sergeant Daniel Stanton, were both Killed In Action at Fort Griswold during the Revolutionary War <b><i>Battle of Groton Heights</i></b>. The two Stanton brothers are buried side-by-side at the rural Stanton-Hull Cemetery, Wheeler Road, North Stonington, Connecticut. This well-kept rural burial ground is about six miles by the best route from where they fell on that early day in September 1781 at Fort Griswold, Groton, Connecticut.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Gravestone Inscription:</span></div><div><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">"<span face=""Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #36322d; font-size: 15px;">Here Inter'd are the bodies of two </span><span face=""Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #36322d; font-size: 15px;">brothers Sons of Capt Phineas Stanton </span><span face=""Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #36322d; font-size: 15px;">and Elizabeth his wife who fell </span><span face=""Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #36322d; font-size: 15px;">with many of their friends on Sept </span><span face=""Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #36322d; font-size: 15px;">6th, 1781 while manfully fight</span><span face=""Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #36322d; font-size: 15px;">ing for the liberty of their Coun</span><span face=""Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #36322d; font-size: 15px;">try and defense of Fort Griswold. </span><span face=""Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #36322d; font-size: 15px;">The assailants were com</span><span face=""Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #36322d; font-size: 15px;">manded by that most despicable </span><span face=""Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #36322d; font-size: 15px;">patricide, Benedict Arnold." </span></span></div><div><span face=""Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #36322d; font-size: 15px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #36322d; font-size: 15px;">Note: While it is true that British General Benedict Arnold was in overall command of this early September 1781 New London County operation, but to be historically correct, the turn-coat Arnold was never present or in a direct leadership role on the Groton side of the Thames River or at Fort Griswold. General Arnold was present on the New London side of the Thames River that September day, taking an active leadership role in the capture of Fort Trumbull and in the cowardly unfortunate burning of many City of New London properties. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #36322d; font-size: 15px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #36322d; font-size: 15px;">The heroes Lieutenant Enoch Stanton and his younger brother Sergeant Daniel Stanton are paternal 3rd cousins-8xRemoved, and the Great-Great Grandsons of the Stanton Family colonial progenitor Thomas Stanton Sr. (d.1677, in Stonington, CT) </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #fce5cd; color: #36322d; font-size: 15px;"><br /></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br style="text-align: left;" /></div></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6FAlg8iYsHv5uau1unggcskVoZtIEmllGR0s4yZLSC5YKHfJ7jS2VwVyANrvDbItZ0f88wjr1L3g7pOH7lfGgAmT6JmiPdN3bC02NTt7SU5frVDCf0c4-9m3u4JuF6Y1W-rfZfdbPoiiw/s1659/Nathan+Stanton+5-14-2021.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1244" data-original-width="1659" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6FAlg8iYsHv5uau1unggcskVoZtIEmllGR0s4yZLSC5YKHfJ7jS2VwVyANrvDbItZ0f88wjr1L3g7pOH7lfGgAmT6JmiPdN3bC02NTt7SU5frVDCf0c4-9m3u4JuF6Y1W-rfZfdbPoiiw/s320/Nathan+Stanton+5-14-2021.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Ensign Nathan Stanton is thought to be the father of Captain Ebenezer Stanton (d.1811) as cited in the first section of this post. Official Revolutionary War documentation is found supporting Nathan's gravestone inscription that he is a Revolutionary Soldier and that this Ensign Nathan Stanton in 1776 was assigned as a junior officer serving in the company commanded by Captain William Stanton, 8th Infantry Regiment of the State of Connecticut Militia (Colonel Oliver Smith's New London County, Connecticut Militia Regiment). Further, we know from the official record that the 8th Infantry of Connecticut Militia was in New York State to support the October 1776 rebellion <b><i>Battle of White Plains</i></b>, New York State. The White Plains battle is strongly significant since it was essentially the delaying action that allowed General George Washington and his rebel army to escape British forces into Pennsylvania. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">No dates are inscribed on Ensign Nathan Stanton's memorial, such dates would naturally be of certain assistance with a more positive ID, but gravestone inscriptions are known to be secondary genealogical references at best. However, the preponderance of evidence tends to suggest this is the grave of Nathan Stanton (1732-1786), the father of the aforementioned Captain Ebenezer Stanton. Also, we are currently unable to find the internment site of Ensign Nathan Stanton's wife Mrs. Elizabeth Abigail (Billings) Stanton, who is thought to have passed away in about 1761 (predeceasing Nathan by nearly 25-years). Elizabeth was likely buried in a presently unknown Billings Family plot near Stonington, Connecticut. We think that Nathan never remarried; however, this is an unproven opinion. Circumstances regarding why Nathan is not interred near to his beloved wife Elizabeth are unknown. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Ensign Nathan Stanton is not found in his military unit's official pay records in 1780, this suggests he resigned his commission perhaps due to sickness or advancing age (no formal documents are found to support his military discharge). A junior grade company officer's military responsibilities are certainly stressful and demanding at times, where a younger man would be better suited. No metal grave marker was installed on Ensign Nathan Stanton's grave at Rixtown Cemetery, Griswold, CT until more identification proofs become available; however, a fresh American Flag was installed on this gravesite in the Town of Griswold. Hopefully, additional research and discovery prove this Ensign Nathan Stanton is the late father of Captain Ebenezer Stanton (d.1811, New London, CT). Nathan will then be claimed as our distant 2nd Cousin-9xRemoved -- and the Great-Grandson of colonial progenitor Thomas Stanton Sr. (d.1677). </p><p style="text-align: justify;"> </p>~__"DJ"__~http://www.blogger.com/profile/16538343712804412354noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3263621249863051617.post-15145871668003015612023-07-04T19:39:00.011-04:002023-07-07T12:38:19.051-04:00On GETTYSBURG -- The Turner Movie<p><span style="text-align: justify;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijWeMCrKBYl7-jt_eSC87gwxRkwbP6YKx2oJ20wx0LAluh2GuDYUmYkAnwn-70Kh3tmvb_1l3HnfCUQQzWTOngNZbD6c1gaX30t1AeorzAofc2wlLtmo-5m7SAG-J9723qHrn7xWhcqSuTxQksUboYbpenkZyU0AyGTlAtsGhAtLahbJ3cMQcdGThLY9NI/s400/Rebellion.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="388" data-original-width="400" height="310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijWeMCrKBYl7-jt_eSC87gwxRkwbP6YKx2oJ20wx0LAluh2GuDYUmYkAnwn-70Kh3tmvb_1l3HnfCUQQzWTOngNZbD6c1gaX30t1AeorzAofc2wlLtmo-5m7SAG-J9723qHrn7xWhcqSuTxQksUboYbpenkZyU0AyGTlAtsGhAtLahbJ3cMQcdGThLY9NI/s320/Rebellion.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-align: justify;">The four-hour+ Turner classic movie <b><i>GETTYSBURG</i></b> was viewed again two days ago. In the late afternoon that day July 2, 1863, Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain's 20th Maine Regiment made their successful downhill bayonet charge off Little Roundtop just outside Gettysburg, PA. The 20th Maine's exploits that day crushed a nearly successful left flank attack by </span><span style="text-align: justify;">rebel army units </span><span style="text-align: justify;">on the Union line. And it was on this day July 4, 1863, that Union Commanding General George Meade allowed the rebel troops under </span><span style="text-align: justify;">Confederated States of America (CSA) </span><span style="text-align: justify;">General Robert E. Lee to complete their escape across the Potomac River back into the safety of their home ground in Virginia. A supermajority of folks who study the American Civil War perhaps agree that General U.S. Grant would have followed the retreating rebel forces to re-engage them -- and perhaps ending that bloodiest of all American wars then in that hot summer of 1863. How many thousands of casualties would General Grant's leadership have saved? </span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">General Robert E. Lee in no way accepted the premise that the Confederate Rebellion was lost following those bloody first three days in July 1863 at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania -- one hundred and sixty years past. More Civil War causalities occurred following the <b><i>Battle of Gettysburg</i></b> than were suffered before this American Civil War fight. General Lee does not appear to be a broken man as he writes this August 1863 letter from Richmond to his second-in-command top general and his most trusted right-hand man Lieutenant General James Longstreet:</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-align: justify;">"</span><em>GENERAL, I have wished for several days past to return to the army, but have been detained by the President. He will not listen to my proposition to leave to-morrow. I hope you will use every exertion to prepare the army for offensive operations, and improve the condition of our men and animals. I can see nothing better to be done than to endeavor to bring General Meade out and use our efforts to crush his army while in its present condition."</em></span></p><p></p><div style="text-align: left;"><em><span style="font-size: medium;">Very respectfully and truly yours,</span></em></div><em><br />R. E. LEE<br />General.</em><p></p><p><em><br /></em></p>~__"DJ"__~http://www.blogger.com/profile/16538343712804412354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3263621249863051617.post-8846511197484941392023-06-24T12:16:00.008-04:002023-06-25T08:53:27.399-04:00The Questionable Inquiry On U.S. Navy Disclosure <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsWlNZBM8WHctiPzu7aN_kszZD4zjjlN3WAcaCLzJJnT7RAMVE8Qxc9upqEXcaDgA5ynCYb8NKeDtAVXBxcvnGFSU1BhxXzDCkzAuBM5NYXTATktPwqd148z4u2BElAxGgPOa0GSUQjYQIWBVjrqJSqrFcBsWGM-lgZHmbHtFs_wemya81PQcSDDMlu2cY/s747/Titan.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="431" data-original-width="747" height="185" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsWlNZBM8WHctiPzu7aN_kszZD4zjjlN3WAcaCLzJJnT7RAMVE8Qxc9upqEXcaDgA5ynCYb8NKeDtAVXBxcvnGFSU1BhxXzDCkzAuBM5NYXTATktPwqd148z4u2BElAxGgPOa0GSUQjYQIWBVjrqJSqrFcBsWGM-lgZHmbHtFs_wemya81PQcSDDMlu2cY/s320/Titan.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Earlier this week June 18, 2023, my cousin Ron asked me about the fate of the deep
submergence submarine Titan. My 5-word reply – ...they are
dead or lost. Turns out the US Navy strongly suspected the Titan
was lost early Sunday, June 18th – and reported this finding in classified messages to top
brass and the on-scene Titan search commander. One of CNN's ace gray-haired reporters was seen yesterday seriously asking why
it took so long for the US Navy to publicly release their opinion
that Titan likely imploded just a couple hours into its descent on
the wreck of Titanic.</p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">As background, do a
valuable read of the Wikipedia Internet post describing SOSUS. From
what I've heard and read from non-military sources, this Wikipedia
article seems fairly accurate.</p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Click <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOSUS" target="_blank">HERE</a> to check out the article. </p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="text-align: left;">Thanks to the discovery a few
decades past that a cowardly retired US Navy Officer John Walker
(died 2014) and his family of spies, the secrets of SOSUS were
accurately disclosed and confirmed over time to the USSR. So the
valuable classified SOSUS system as then configured in the 1960s+ was considered less useful following the Walker spy-network treason. And with
the end of the Cold War (OBTW Washington and the world, the Cold War has never ended), SOSUS
information was thought less valuable to military strategic
planners... perhaps even unnecessary to some of these star-laden wiz-kids. But
who among us believes there is not now an operational SOSUS
replacement system (some form of SOSUS upgrade) that provides USA
defense managers with accurate data on the position of adversarial submarines.
And to that self-important gray-haired CNN reporter – NOW HEAR
THIS -- whatever it is that now provides the USA with submarine
intelligence is now likely highly classified. <u><b>Bottom line</b></u> – it is obvious to a most casual observer that it is this system or sound analysis method(s) that heard the Titan implode. Whatever
hardware and software, or physical/virtual assets are employed to discover
and evaluate submarine activity at sea is none of the general
population's business -- and the ethically deprived inquiry by a CNN "alleged reporter" is dangerously inappropriate. It seems equally obvious that an average 4th-grade science class will easily understand why the secrecy of such a SONAR system is important in securing the safety and security of the US people.</span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="text-align: left;">The decision to release the US Navy's classified position regarding a likely Titan "catastrophic implosion" rose to the level of the Executive Office of the POTUS -- (or hopefully, this better be true!). </span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="text-align: left;">Note: The Titan image inserted at the top of this post is sourced from multiple Google Internet news publications and is likely the public-domain property of the OceanGate firm.</span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></p>~__"DJ"__~http://www.blogger.com/profile/16538343712804412354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3263621249863051617.post-79807155018734553622023-05-29T19:34:00.006-04:002023-06-30T09:48:42.714-04:00Two first Cousins, Combat Wounded WWI Veterans<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">The Covert brothers were private
soldiers enlisted in June 1917 at the Mohawk Armory, New York State National Guard, Company M,
107th Infantry Regiment, a </span><span style="text-align: left;">unit</span><span style="text-align: left;"> </span><span style="text-align: left;">federalized later in 1917 for the duration of WWI as part of the U.S. First Army. The European Theater battles their regiment engaged in include, but are not limited to, East Paperinghe,
Dickenbusch, Bellicourt, and The Hindenburg Line. Charles served in overseas combat duty from May 9, 1918, through December 26, 1918, he
was severely wounded in action on October 30, 1918, with a head
injury. Charles was declared 40% disabled when Honorably Discharged on February 17, 1919, although Charles did spend the last half
of his life in treatment at various VA hospitals. Charles's older
brother George served in overseas combat duty from May 9, 1918, through
March 9, 1919, he was exposed to gas attacks of an undisclosed nature
on September 29, 1918, and was slightly wounded in action on October
5, 1918. He was Honorably Discharged from the Army on April 2, 1919,
allegedly with 0% disability. But age 36 George died at home in
October 1930 from undisclosed causes. Who can suggest his untimely
death was not at least somewhat service-connected.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">The graves of these two military combat veterans were found at Oak Hill
Cemetery, Herkimer, New York, each without American Flags in mid-May 2023. Sadly, military veteran graves lacking an American Flag are a highly unacceptable but not uncommon sight before Memorial Day in these
parts -- all it simply takes is a walk through the gravestones in most cemeteries to find them. The two brothers Covert, both World War I combat wounded
veterans are my maternal first cousins, one generation senior (aka 1xRemoved).
Private First Class George Earl Covert and Private Charles Ernest
Covert finally got their metallic WWI Grave Marker/Flag Holders embedded in a concrete base with fresh-earned American
Flags as installed a few days ago. Thank you for your honorable military service. Rest In Peace.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSsxJZl-X35VH_xHFgOjdiMS7b4T6j97nOy8kAP4NIBCU3UH4nwX06VioZfoB5kmScSUeAEQhohxn4JNgIA2dUDR0flElVn2frMKfaeFBicUikuzQfGO_enNsKFWbjjUolptx0iRt21SIn6eqkHKQp-8Y9ggDATJSsdHbBCm6nyljC_J7YxgluUI_brg/s2832/George%20E%20Covert%20-%20Flagged.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2250" data-original-width="2832" height="254" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSsxJZl-X35VH_xHFgOjdiMS7b4T6j97nOy8kAP4NIBCU3UH4nwX06VioZfoB5kmScSUeAEQhohxn4JNgIA2dUDR0flElVn2frMKfaeFBicUikuzQfGO_enNsKFWbjjUolptx0iRt21SIn6eqkHKQp-8Y9ggDATJSsdHbBCm6nyljC_J7YxgluUI_brg/s320/George%20E%20Covert%20-%20Flagged.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>The Gravesite Of George E. Covert</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhibw8H7vOqu1XxWz8-dPF8cc7kFf9jV6h4JHo3g6y7TutlUJoSZHzcUf7wp7sNQcIBEzkDSBjoMgdZ1vN-r5d2hCEAdNNtEXjVeltEm7d7NjtrEI5ewmi78LOLVhhiE_5DpTONAW-55PaK-qCPcpBKb2G0XshYJ8uGoo_hDEiAQ4EV-oPua0UJM45oew/s2626/Carrie%20and%20Charles%20Covert.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="2626" height="195" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhibw8H7vOqu1XxWz8-dPF8cc7kFf9jV6h4JHo3g6y7TutlUJoSZHzcUf7wp7sNQcIBEzkDSBjoMgdZ1vN-r5d2hCEAdNNtEXjVeltEm7d7NjtrEI5ewmi78LOLVhhiE_5DpTONAW-55PaK-qCPcpBKb2G0XshYJ8uGoo_hDEiAQ4EV-oPua0UJM45oew/s320/Carrie%20and%20Charles%20Covert.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><b>The Gravesite Of Charles E. Covert</b> </p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p></p>~__"DJ"__~http://www.blogger.com/profile/16538343712804412354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3263621249863051617.post-12176990244515351282023-04-11T07:52:00.003-04:002023-07-07T12:47:12.790-04:00A Few Readers Might Care About This DNA Test<p> </p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Still proudly 100% European American!</b></span> </span></p><div dir="ltr" style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">The results are in dated 6 April 2023 for my third autosomal DNA test with Family Tree DNA (FTDNA). This test was done to hopefully help with a better definition of where our maternal Great-Great Grandma Caroline (Keirnan) Anderson came from, and it seems Caroline's Irish origins remain possible, but now less probable. What this new test does is -- fails to disprove Caroline's Irish roots. But not really surprised to find the new FTDNA results are rather similar to my two other tests done by AncestryDNA and 23andMe DNA. While each testing firm's DNA origin results are calculated differently under proprietary algorithms, it seems their basic calculation formula is highly similar. So unfortunately the new test does not help very much with the origin of Grandma Caroline. Here are the new estimated FTDNA results:</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfBAdv5R4mgh3bIgNe3dI7I2br6QS9lHiNoXBFZVs7sCEsomGlNFBbACHKVfWkaGQ5Q3c8i2sA54GX_BnzYdG8W80zjULLM4AwOj2Pzw-7YdLyC30TtOmyobgPHmjyUKWHgAohRXgc4lf1hofnH7hywd1Cg-ee4sBarRJ3XfuKNgCPhG0nL4si05TqVQ/s728/myOrigins%20FTDNA.JPG" style="background-color: #fff2cc; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="728" data-original-width="345" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfBAdv5R4mgh3bIgNe3dI7I2br6QS9lHiNoXBFZVs7sCEsomGlNFBbACHKVfWkaGQ5Q3c8i2sA54GX_BnzYdG8W80zjULLM4AwOj2Pzw-7YdLyC30TtOmyobgPHmjyUKWHgAohRXgc4lf1hofnH7hywd1Cg-ee4sBarRJ3XfuKNgCPhG0nL4si05TqVQ/w304-h640/myOrigins%20FTDNA.JPG" width="304" /></a></div><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><br /> </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none; text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><br /></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none; text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">The FTDNA "myOrigins" detailed source map:</b></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSLzozJ6m3k5g4cLRpA8XmLnOsW8Qt42Lr_ukFODRmqWCUhaf_v1RdSRf8bQQDhJP-vYDOrCJre-EM5SF3Jtr8Pmt7YLIpYc6m9AVNqPv3lYdbrbrluHc7Z4iyzEQQLKRZeA9Nu_VX_J_JTD0V_3f5d7lKkCT1M6iPhKw-POWTm7wyaqgZ3WXXsq9lwA/s756/myOrigins-Map.JPG" style="background-color: #fff2cc; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="756" data-original-width="649" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSLzozJ6m3k5g4cLRpA8XmLnOsW8Qt42Lr_ukFODRmqWCUhaf_v1RdSRf8bQQDhJP-vYDOrCJre-EM5SF3Jtr8Pmt7YLIpYc6m9AVNqPv3lYdbrbrluHc7Z4iyzEQQLKRZeA9Nu_VX_J_JTD0V_3f5d7lKkCT1M6iPhKw-POWTm7wyaqgZ3WXXsq9lwA/w344-h400/myOrigins-Map.JPG" width="344" /></a></div><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><br /></span><div dir="ltr" style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><br clear="none" style="outline: none;" /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Note the FTDNA "England, Wales, and Scotland" totaling an estimated 57% of our origin DNA includes Northeast Ireland, all of Northwestern France, and most of Western Belgium and the Netherlands. This is obviously a different way to present essentially very similar DNA estimates. Click <a href="https://geeksbwe.blogspot.com/2018/07/new-ancestry-dna-calculation.html" target="_blank">HERE</a> to review our two previously presented DNA estimates as calculated by AncestryDNA and 23andMe. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"><br /></div>~__"DJ"__~http://www.blogger.com/profile/16538343712804412354noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3263621249863051617.post-48702576516592816042023-04-03T09:15:00.003-04:002023-04-05T11:05:37.931-04:00Two Days Of Fighting -- 23,746 Estimated Casualties<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span>Some folks share a historical interest in U.S. military battles. The major <span style="outline: none;"><span style="outline: none;">American Civil War</span></span> Battles </span><span style="outline: none;"><span style="outline: none;"><span style="outline: none;">Bull Run</span></span><span style="outline: none;">,</span><span style="outline: none;"> </span></span><span style="outline: none;"><span style="outline: none;">Antietam, Fredericksburg</span>,</span><span> and </span><span style="outline: none;"><span style="outline: none;"><span style="outline: none;">Gettysburg</span></span></span><span> are a personal focus since several ancestors were troops doing the Union fighting. The </span><i style="outline: none;"><b style="outline: none;">Battle of Shiloh</b></i><span> was known but this struggle was never seriously studied. Below is a summary of some interesting facts presented by the </span><i style="outline: none;">American Battlefield Trust. </i><span>These accepted battle facts cause a hollow feeling in the gut -- kind of interesting that </span><b style="outline: none;"><i style="outline: none;">Shiloh </i></b><span>is declared a union victory when 13,000+ of the official estimated 23,746 casualties are union troops.</span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="outline: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="outline: none; text-align: justify;"><span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span>A typical example of Civil War Battle causality is the case of our German-born paternal Great-Great Grandfather Corporal William Moegling, late of Company B, 97th Infantry Regiment of New York State Volunteers. William was with his unit during the major battles of Bull Run, Antietam, and Fredericksburg. </span><span> </span><span>He remains assigned to his regiment in December 1862 at Fredericksburg but was probably then convalescing at a unit field hospital near Belle Plain Landing, Virginia. </span><span>In early 1863 William was</span><span> </span><span style="outline: none;"><i>Discharged For Disability </i>from the military</span><span>.</span><span> Official records show he suffered a gunshot wound to the right leg during the early morning hours of </span><span>17 September 1862 at</span><span> The Battle of Antietam. William died at his adopted Utica, New York home in 1869, probably due at least in part to the negative effects of his various Civil War service-connected injuries. An unknown number of soldiers on both sides of the Civil War died many months and/or years following their military service injuries -- and these men (and some women) were never counted among the official Civil War casualties. </span></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="outline: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br style="outline: none;" /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="outline: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">A union victory at <b style="outline: none;"><i style="outline: none;">Shiloh</i></b>! Well, technically true I guess, but when significantly more union troops -- nearly 2,500 more <span style="outline: none;">union causalities are </span>lost at <b style="outline: none;"><i style="outline: none;">Shiloh </i></b>-- it does cause a rational person to question this "victory." Any student of the American Civil War knows the projected body count assessment was not a factor in General U.S. Grant's Army <span style="outline: none;">tactical planning</span>. Note: some living highly credentialed statisticians place the likely number of <b style="outline: none;"><i style="outline: none;">Shiloh </i></b>battle casualties at more like 27,500+. These increased casualty numbers are likely valid for all the century-and-a-half-old<span style="outline: none;"> </span>battle causality calculations experienced during the Civil War. The generally accepted number is 620,000 total Civil War <span style="outline: none;">Union and Rebel army casualties</span>; whereas, the actual causality number may be closer to 850,000.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="outline: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br style="outline: none;" /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="outline: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="outline: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">A <b style="outline: none;"><i style="outline: none;">Battle of Shiloh </i></b>summary as copied from the American Battlefield Trust website follows:</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="outline: none; text-align: justify;"><span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="outline: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Hardin County, Tennessee, April 6 - 7, 1862</b></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="outline: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="outline: none; text-align: justify;">
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The Battle of Shiloh,
also known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing, allowed Union troops
to penetrate the Confederate interior. The carnage was unprecedented,
with the human toll being the greatest of any war on the American
continent up to that date.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">How the battle ended:</b></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">A Union victory. The
South’s defeat at Shiloh ended the Confederacy’s hopes of
blocking the Union's advance into Mississippi and doomed the
Confederate military initiative in the West. With the loss of their
commander, General Albert Sidney Johnston, in battle, Confederate
morale plummeted.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Battle in context:</b></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">After Major General Ulysses S. Grant's
Union victories at Fort Henry and Fort Donelson in February 1862,
Confederate General Johnston withdrew from Kentucky and left much of
the western and middle of Tennessee to the Federals. This permitted General Grant to push his troops toward Corinth,
Mississippi, the strategic intersection of the Mobile and Ohio
Railroad and the Memphis and Charleston Railroad and a vital troop
and supply conduit for the South. Alerted to the Union army’s
position, General Johnston intercepted the Federal troops twenty miles northeast of
Corinth at Pittsburg Landing. The encounter proved devastating —
not only for its tactical failure but for the extreme number of
casualties. After the Battle of Shiloh, both sides realized the magnitude of the
conflict, which would be longer and bloodier than they could have
imagined.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span>Click <a href="https://www.battlefields.org/learn/civil-war/battles/shiloh" target="_blank">HERE</a> to read more battle details including battlefield maps, see the American Battlefield Trust website. </span><span> </span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none; text-align: justify;"><br /></div>~__"DJ"__~http://www.blogger.com/profile/16538343712804412354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3263621249863051617.post-33193184272620945082023-03-03T13:00:00.092-05:002023-05-21T09:57:51.559-04:00Cups Amidst Green Lands<div style="text-align: center;">
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">What beckons us now regarding this game?</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Small cups are set out on green fields to be tamed.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Dimpled spheres are oft found so dicey to sink,</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">wee sum is the goal that does not awful stink.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Today we shall conquer this rolling green land,</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">by swinging thin sticks as grasped in both hands.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Offers solid fine proof to this gallant four-some,</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">that our links-gaming skills are not now succumbed.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Play thirty-six holes 'tis a happy day's plan!</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Found too many moments in this wretched beach sand.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Eighteen is enough! Now in water, then woods,</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">ball slicing and hooking caused scoring not good.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">What drives these old Duffers? Sad tallies are great!</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">On those frequent stout journeys to self-flagellate.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">High grass and tough carpet cause grueling concerns,</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">but in a couple short hours we shall plan our return.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">What is it that calls us regarding this game?</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Woods, waters, and weather make fit men less sane.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Exercise, fellowship, or try out your new toys?</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Rewards at Nineteenth! And good play with fond boys.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">A golf poem by ex-player DJ Paul</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Original version publication date, March 10, 2010</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">as <b><i>"Holes Amid Green Fields" </i></b></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Edited, enhanced, and re-published by author, March 27, 2023</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">with the new title <i><b>"Cups Amidst Green Lands"</b></i></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Not copyrighted, unaltered free use is granted (without additional permission) to volunteer, non-profit, or not-for-profit educational and/or charitable activity. </p></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>~__"DJ"__~http://www.blogger.com/profile/16538343712804412354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3263621249863051617.post-49478384601961221462023-02-25T13:39:00.026-05:002023-09-18T10:24:07.218-04:00Easy To Play "Things Have Changed" - by Bob Dylan<p> </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Another fine production by master songwriter, singer, and Nobel laureate Bob Dylan, with credits cited at the bottom of page 3 image. Free use as compiled here for the non-profit, not-for-profit educational use of amateur and/or beginner guitar and baritone ukulele artists for their practice, their continued learning, and their strumming pleasure. </p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoDMEpBt7vWtQ2wpBFpm_NYhBvTX0RhpBvtJIyCY62goevz7wDxol-nIZIBGExxp0ddMbIO89gxvC6m85tWjeo6bb1D6q6zT0YOfjtrALwbkIiyynx8mW7sl_zhD8G9iO8M1dCpoQYHJtwpstryVjl5RJ8apsCmu17w1mep3O8d2Rcfdbbf_CyIk7ZYQ/s767/Things%20Have%20Changed%20p1.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="767" data-original-width="459" height="372" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoDMEpBt7vWtQ2wpBFpm_NYhBvTX0RhpBvtJIyCY62goevz7wDxol-nIZIBGExxp0ddMbIO89gxvC6m85tWjeo6bb1D6q6zT0YOfjtrALwbkIiyynx8mW7sl_zhD8G9iO8M1dCpoQYHJtwpstryVjl5RJ8apsCmu17w1mep3O8d2Rcfdbbf_CyIk7ZYQ/w222-h372/Things%20Have%20Changed%20p1.JPG" width="222" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvX_Y68L9KU8JL-5oJScry-gQpaa0h2_gDtPZFaJBrO9iuhAFpWkgJ2YnOp2sv7TEqE2idqqJtQ9dAGVbTZMTp0YCjv1yPm22Gk9RNxZ275ijuYbCqxX5tJZ3JgWjEbrsoLJC4Wm6xOKAUMY1qmFKUWhYJ1RQjAbbyjSbQkMH6dNfy2I2RLdFrAe4v7g/s685/Things%20Have%20Changed%20p2.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="685" data-original-width="480" height="354" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvX_Y68L9KU8JL-5oJScry-gQpaa0h2_gDtPZFaJBrO9iuhAFpWkgJ2YnOp2sv7TEqE2idqqJtQ9dAGVbTZMTp0YCjv1yPm22Gk9RNxZ275ijuYbCqxX5tJZ3JgWjEbrsoLJC4Wm6xOKAUMY1qmFKUWhYJ1RQjAbbyjSbQkMH6dNfy2I2RLdFrAe4v7g/w248-h354/Things%20Have%20Changed%20p2.JPG" width="248" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1AslJOpk7jW8eQtOGttGbNOqRzykVpQKYcHM6U9MlulZCY05SiZbzuNsxn0j80CnrNNJIWjXOmrityi3EttDVqD6iUYr94GyTGXtnijH-Q7VJXnnYM_wm9x2uN876xYoPVvOdwLG4l9TGNyufa3Nk4PnuAbmieSmmNoLl3EU-Im-Ya2EeDsCXpFWBfg/s686/Things%20Have%20Changed%20p3.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="686" data-original-width="516" height="330" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1AslJOpk7jW8eQtOGttGbNOqRzykVpQKYcHM6U9MlulZCY05SiZbzuNsxn0j80CnrNNJIWjXOmrityi3EttDVqD6iUYr94GyTGXtnijH-Q7VJXnnYM_wm9x2uN876xYoPVvOdwLG4l9TGNyufa3Nk4PnuAbmieSmmNoLl3EU-Im-Ya2EeDsCXpFWBfg/w249-h330/Things%20Have%20Changed%20p3.JPG" width="249" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">To sing and/or play along with Dylan on YouTube, click <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9EKqQWPjyo" target="_blank">HERE</a> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Bob Dylan's song <i>"Things Have Changed" </i>was initially written specifically for inclusion in the outstanding Curtis Hanson film <i>"Wonder Boys"</i> -- starring the film's fine actor Michael Douglas. The film seems destined to become a future classic. Michael Chabon's highly praised novel by the same name <i>"Wonder Boys"</i> was skillfully adapted in the screenplay by Steve Kloves. Director Hanson's film commentary notes with great pleasure that Bob Dylan expressed interest in writing a masterful film-based song. Bob Dylan also subsequently released a strongly humorous associated video wherein he sings his fine song while artfully employing selected <i>"Wonder Boys"</i> film clips that firmly enhance his final video project. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Critics may note a few changed words here and there and revisions in three lines done by DJ Paul as published here in Dylan's song <i>"Things Have Changed"</i> - Verse 3 line 8, and Verse 4 lines 6 and 7, revisions believed to more faithfully communicate the accurate presentations in both Chabon's novel and Hanson's film. Dylan's original written verse 4, lines 6 and 7 are reported here as follows:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Verse 3:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>Line 8 - Puttin' her in a wheelbarrow and wheeling her down the street</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Verse 4:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Line 6 - I'm in love with a woman who don't even appeal to me</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Line 7 - Mr. Jinx and Miss Lucy, they jumped in the lake</div></blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Writer D. Paul's verses 3 and 4 revisions are respectfully tendered as follows:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Verse 3:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span> </span><span> </span>Line 8 - Puttin' her on ah scooter and pushin' her down the street</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Verse 4:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Line 6 - I love a married woman who truly appeals to me</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Line 7 - It's a tense match game, with very high stakes </div></blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></blockquote>~__"DJ"__~http://www.blogger.com/profile/16538343712804412354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3263621249863051617.post-43497980605689002662023-02-14T11:46:00.000-05:002023-02-14T11:46:33.102-05:00Among The Finest Four Words In Film Dialogue<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfm8lj1aooopAwlCuQfUzcboW3ye-k98j2nhFImOiT0aFW9oO-2Khse3KYxdFWAEzRFUlfvOQKyj5THApFqLIoE9gKQWTX9lV4gXc208thjnXKgTGqWAjQuSlt7Gg_jFaOKEJwfao_HU4juSkZJijywDyygxxN2SPnDnLyacXmr9aOd_VzHo7vInSieA/s316/Movie.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="316" data-original-width="252" height="316" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfm8lj1aooopAwlCuQfUzcboW3ye-k98j2nhFImOiT0aFW9oO-2Khse3KYxdFWAEzRFUlfvOQKyj5THApFqLIoE9gKQWTX9lV4gXc208thjnXKgTGqWAjQuSlt7Gg_jFaOKEJwfao_HU4juSkZJijywDyygxxN2SPnDnLyacXmr9aOd_VzHo7vInSieA/s1600/Movie.JPG" width="252" /></a></div><br /><p>Personal film studies find some of my
favorite four words of motion picture dialogue... and a truer four-word phrase
was never uttered.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Directed by John Ford, and starring John Wayne, James Stewart, and Lee Marvin -- this funny scene
is a fine part of the 1962 film <i><b>“The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.”</b></i></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Edmond O'Brien's character local newspaper
editor <i>Dutton Peabody</i> says ”... give me a drink.”
Bartender Jack replies “The bar is closed.” Peabody later replies
<span style="font-size: medium;"><i><b>“A Beer's Not Drinking!”</b></i></span></p>
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<p>The great film barroom scene dialogue actually goes like this:</p>
<p></p>
<p><i>Dutton Peabody:</i> [during local voting for a territorial
convention] “I'll have the usual, Jack.”</p>
<p><i>Jack the Barman:</i>
“The bar is closed, Mister Editor, during voting.”</p>
<p><i>Dutton Peabody:</i> “Bar's closed?”</p>
<p><i>Tom Doniphon</i> [John Wayne's character]: “You can blame your lawyer friend. He says that's one of the fundamental laws of democracy. No exception.”</p>
<p><i>Dutton Peabody</i>: "No exceptions for the working press? Why that's carrying democracy much too far! <b> </b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Give
me a drink."</i></span></p>
<p><i>Tom Doniphon:</i> “Bar's closed.”</p>
<p><i>Dutton Peabody:</i> “Just a beer!”</p>
<p><i>Tom Doniphon:</i> “The bar's closed.”</p>
<p><i>Dutton Peabody:</i> <span style="font-size: medium;"><i><b>“A beer's not
drinking!”</b></i></span></p>
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The Good Times”</b></i></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b>Written (1968) and First Performed by</b></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span><b>Kris </b></span><span><b>Kristofferson in 1970</b></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b>For a great Kris performance in 2010 at San Sebastian, PR,</b></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b>click the link as cited below.</b></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b>(No CAPO)</b><b> </b></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b>This information is posted and intended for the non-profit, not-for-profit learning benefit of amateur students of guitar and baritone ukelele for their continuing education, practice, and personal strumming pleasure. </b></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><br />
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I just viewed "Sleepy Joe" (aka the liar Biden) and I guess he was reading this <span style="color: red;">FALSE</span> claim from his teleprompter somewhere in New York State. I yelled at the TV -- "... you freakin' liar!" </span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">From Snopes 28 Oct 2022, please click <a href="https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/biden-gas-prices-over-5-dollars/" target="_blank">HERE</a> to view the </span></b><b><span style="font-size: medium;">grand </span></b><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Biden false statement. It is laughable however that the typically liberal Snopes refers to the Biden falsity simply as an "incorrect statement." </span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">What is wrong with Americans who continue to support this dishonest person's frequent utterance of misinformation regarding the state of the economy and inflation? Have any of these continuing Biden supporters been shopping lately? You have gotta know a simple truth, the Biden presidency has been a disaster to the general population's working family and to almost all senior citizen budgets. </span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">P.S. "I lie told often enough becomes the truth." -- </span></b><a class="qa_132031 oncl_a" href="https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/vladimir-lenin-quotes" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0a58ca; font-family: "helvetica neue", helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 700; text-align: left; text-decoration-line: none;">Vladimir Lenin</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">P.P.S. "Incorrect Statements" made often enough are either delusional utterances or </span></b><b><span style="font-size: medium;">flagrant lies</span></b><b><span style="font-size: medium;">. How can such speech be simply classified as "incorrect."</span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">P.P.P.S. A weekly shopping trip to "Price Chopper" Supermarket of Little Falls, NY... I cite just two common products used in many homes:</span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdGNU_cOmUp_DfSWeLSJbi5_k38NCRKu6D7D9b9AFCf-s8DkeD1eXIZ49XZmtFuIIIvVatXCEHPbw-7rAaNGRA_54b-5Xidyg0yHUUE62kgGYkSh-EBkvjRy-cQ4kIJ4RsLt8u6NiSOKXFNP25JVz3-2igKrmhjw0IpGJoiazoueRBzOstJYBCWgYnmg/s594/Mir%20Whip.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="448" data-original-width="594" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdGNU_cOmUp_DfSWeLSJbi5_k38NCRKu6D7D9b9AFCf-s8DkeD1eXIZ49XZmtFuIIIvVatXCEHPbw-7rAaNGRA_54b-5Xidyg0yHUUE62kgGYkSh-EBkvjRy-cQ4kIJ4RsLt8u6NiSOKXFNP25JVz3-2igKrmhjw0IpGJoiazoueRBzOstJYBCWgYnmg/s320/Mir%20Whip.JPG" width="320" /></a></span></b></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Three years ago under the Trump capitalistic administration (aka non-socialist), the same Miracle Whip was about $3.40 in most Central NY grocery stores. And, </span></b></span></b></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEio2QlD9fYUjACQC3rHy4lxum2k_0WHrcNlzfpeD7mrCZ1IbonGojYRYYt38r08HIGv5ZblpqCKB-idakggUh0xyB0zP8xw1QL1HCuHRqNy1iOUmE-bA_vUrNIVEWx0yFA63OcyyvlJn0zCWS43InenAX1bQ2vNweKbMlmo9owzUn5UAwW5zNBbUa7qFQ/s757/Trop%20Juice.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="490" data-original-width="757" height="207" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEio2QlD9fYUjACQC3rHy4lxum2k_0WHrcNlzfpeD7mrCZ1IbonGojYRYYt38r08HIGv5ZblpqCKB-idakggUh0xyB0zP8xw1QL1HCuHRqNy1iOUmE-bA_vUrNIVEWx0yFA63OcyyvlJn0zCWS43InenAX1bQ2vNweKbMlmo9owzUn5UAwW5zNBbUa7qFQ/s320/Trop%20Juice.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: 700;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-weight: bold;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Three years ago the same container of Tropicana Orange Juice was about $2.50 in many Central NY grocery stores (and sometimes $2.00 on sale). Bottom line Joe... purchase prices of both relatively standard household table products are increased nearly 100%. I wonder if the Sleepy Joe Washington Gang has any concept of what inflation is, or does Joe's diminished brain capacity actually believe that the inflation created in just two years is transitory? Each week, several common household products are noted with price increases in the 10%-to 12% range. The Biden economy stewardship is MIA... and grossly incompetent! </div></span></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Who among us thinks POTUS Biden understands the difference between "inflation" and the "rate of inflation?" Any honest evaluator can see these inflated prices -- in many cases where common household items cost 100% more than they did just over two short years ago -- most of this inflation is a direct result of the federal Biden Administration's incompetent energy policy. </span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></b></p>~__"DJ"__~http://www.blogger.com/profile/16538343712804412354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3263621249863051617.post-59519094182203638342022-10-18T09:57:00.001-04:002022-10-25T09:02:45.628-04:00HELP! ID These Flowering Plants<p> </p><p style="text-align: justify;">TO: My Gardner and Cake/Cookie Baking Cousin Nanette... or any other Cousin, Friend, and/or Associate with horticulture background, experience, and knowledge. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">FROM: DJ of German Flatts</p><p style="text-align: justify;"> Help! Don't want to kill 'em, just want to put them elsewhere next year. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">What is this flowering plant? Five photos follow showing this still-growing, now near seven-foot tall flowering plant. This spring a butterfly, bee, and hummingbird variety seed mix was planted in my two flower beds along with my Marigolds. These plants are very doing well, and seem to be light frost tolerant... but would not have knowingly planted these monsters in my small flower beds. WHAT ARE THESE VERY LARGE FLOWERING BUSHES?</p><p><span><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Big Flowering Plants Overwhelm Our Small Flower Beds</b> </p><p><span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm1WESQrHi65LOBLL_AJB95f_9LymhcdXpoOAHDPJyp-R0llbgvJ-f7G3IRJCWwf3CiLuG-Woc5yc3TdTvWlFF-MCc2-Ft8FeSaoIf4aBhPOgtHtm4QTAgSHamknYcE8QnN1iV2EUQkJwmlUZGU_Xr2LjK1GXfrLHcd4eRqdGybzWSKJJOXG1Gx9Gemg/s2055/Flowering%20bush-tree.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2055" data-original-width="1758" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm1WESQrHi65LOBLL_AJB95f_9LymhcdXpoOAHDPJyp-R0llbgvJ-f7G3IRJCWwf3CiLuG-Woc5yc3TdTvWlFF-MCc2-Ft8FeSaoIf4aBhPOgtHtm4QTAgSHamknYcE8QnN1iV2EUQkJwmlUZGU_Xr2LjK1GXfrLHcd4eRqdGybzWSKJJOXG1Gx9Gemg/s320/Flowering%20bush-tree.jpg" width="274" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigXeygQSdM3oP43-iMj3Y3TqxZmtSfRnCN-_H1cDd4rctY0yGG1HmLGdhnYwbW4ORQVTu8jKSEpklsa3oWnRW4Dpa5IIttvt7RVmwI-Tpkr3VfPUENSgyF2Jtcxqoc9uXQFeJK9eolJ3mop9w1b6edqNB2dgXxX02CaJtNMciuvQPPm1DND1rvMfwjTQ/s3668/Mu%202%20Flower%20Boxes.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3668" data-original-width="2751" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigXeygQSdM3oP43-iMj3Y3TqxZmtSfRnCN-_H1cDd4rctY0yGG1HmLGdhnYwbW4ORQVTu8jKSEpklsa3oWnRW4Dpa5IIttvt7RVmwI-Tpkr3VfPUENSgyF2Jtcxqoc9uXQFeJK9eolJ3mop9w1b6edqNB2dgXxX02CaJtNMciuvQPPm1DND1rvMfwjTQ/s320/Mu%202%20Flower%20Boxes.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><p><span><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Closeup Shots of Pink/Rose, and near Red Flowers </b></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs4ynT_1ROMBnsuamjYHAjTXDoj1k0vU4Eo0UhBfpA0f6Jx-g-Lb2Rs-6jM0cVKvwzDiv9cKXK5dKsyhliERrsPmP8lHKSIEivOk8y6q-GJcdBeDf24XQ0EpPsp3Pl68L0_O4dk6Z-bb78Jxpi8auFxb713MVxBRq1LnSIazHd0cJex7zpAeFfV_PA2w/s2244/Flowering%20bush.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2244" data-original-width="1682" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs4ynT_1ROMBnsuamjYHAjTXDoj1k0vU4Eo0UhBfpA0f6Jx-g-Lb2Rs-6jM0cVKvwzDiv9cKXK5dKsyhliERrsPmP8lHKSIEivOk8y6q-GJcdBeDf24XQ0EpPsp3Pl68L0_O4dk6Z-bb78Jxpi8auFxb713MVxBRq1LnSIazHd0cJex7zpAeFfV_PA2w/s320/Flowering%20bush.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQP-JFPlCX6bTKH9oYtXUifstye4fpCsLQe5BxPImwsEavp_TVWOZpfzKejgOj6au2LD5ou45YgoJEjbhA4_R8MoVFnbNM9Mq1b35Mq-xCj1846JJAHnaoNtkX4Nu-ZN6AqI6olGgb6GDL4LvQV191k34tEC1u0_Y25LCkxIKdoq3bx084R6bJvmXyhw/s1695/Closeup%20of%204%20dia%20flower.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1432" data-original-width="1695" height="270" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQP-JFPlCX6bTKH9oYtXUifstye4fpCsLQe5BxPImwsEavp_TVWOZpfzKejgOj6au2LD5ou45YgoJEjbhA4_R8MoVFnbNM9Mq1b35Mq-xCj1846JJAHnaoNtkX4Nu-ZN6AqI6olGgb6GDL4LvQV191k34tEC1u0_Y25LCkxIKdoq3bx084R6bJvmXyhw/s320/Closeup%20of%204%20dia%20flower.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>A Couple Hundred Bud Clusters Bring More Flowers Each Day! </b></p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-lRgt85RkUvbWPm9CF5xZQoAnWo3f4SkE-brghS0X4BNeNiQ_NUMabK27YrvsGket7c0wXaKOPuvlcZbkwRea_s1vr5iP8zn_jQ906Si230hL7MbPSdX8Yn-bdM6m2l3qQeJ7dU863q_-os1_hinG7isQDt9zcfcfL44d2yBYu44tVmaiHayGaXVqKg/s1011/Bud%20clusters.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="991" data-original-width="1011" height="314" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-lRgt85RkUvbWPm9CF5xZQoAnWo3f4SkE-brghS0X4BNeNiQ_NUMabK27YrvsGket7c0wXaKOPuvlcZbkwRea_s1vr5iP8zn_jQ906Si230hL7MbPSdX8Yn-bdM6m2l3qQeJ7dU863q_-os1_hinG7isQDt9zcfcfL44d2yBYu44tVmaiHayGaXVqKg/s320/Bud%20clusters.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><b>Best email: davejpaul2@yahoo.com. Many Thanks! DJ</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>See comments on those folks who ID'ed the flowering plants -- thanks! </b></p><p><b><u><i>Update 25 October 2022 8 AM</i></u> -- and the COSMOS plants keep growing, many more flowers each day. We've had a few light frost mornings but obviously no "killing frost" as yet in these parts. </b></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj98m463NfAPrYw0SlrQK3YyFToelyZrx8UV7MRCD0LFI0Wgo9c9lqc8hFJ8VQmDS_5CMaZExN6SLjm9vA-NJhQ-dBSTzxAvsddR55aH4GIgsmHZY83OxKUGuSO1haYmFv7MXLrot2Grseq5R20QYm4jX_-0t_u_61FO8rBsmqVqJuoZX3JzAQSwqft4w/s1392/Bed%201%20many%20COSMOS%20flower.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1311" data-original-width="1392" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj98m463NfAPrYw0SlrQK3YyFToelyZrx8UV7MRCD0LFI0Wgo9c9lqc8hFJ8VQmDS_5CMaZExN6SLjm9vA-NJhQ-dBSTzxAvsddR55aH4GIgsmHZY83OxKUGuSO1haYmFv7MXLrot2Grseq5R20QYm4jX_-0t_u_61FO8rBsmqVqJuoZX3JzAQSwqft4w/s320/Bed%201%20many%20COSMOS%20flower.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><b><br /></b><p></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b> </b></p>~__"DJ"__~http://www.blogger.com/profile/16538343712804412354noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3263621249863051617.post-13431144548543288892022-10-03T06:11:00.002-04:002022-10-03T06:25:15.749-04:00Our Distant Cousin Private Jay Cady Stanton --RIP<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGyZ3JyTPZ81ehsDDQEih2Hi_qb0stJYsxm9rixbdl4L3KW7DoTKyNMmdHkiizpbHZAquzyGPREffLfaEGxh-D4MVjw0N6km1-VcFT0ctdHRSDtqjP3mSxC_ntivKyfUwmX99ZVQcdcTmMMuSN1mgMG0Md6KJcPNdVCQ0Qtpwn47Q2FeiusvHrqgLo1w/s228/Civil%20War%20Soldiers.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="201" data-original-width="228" height="353" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGyZ3JyTPZ81ehsDDQEih2Hi_qb0stJYsxm9rixbdl4L3KW7DoTKyNMmdHkiizpbHZAquzyGPREffLfaEGxh-D4MVjw0N6km1-VcFT0ctdHRSDtqjP3mSxC_ntivKyfUwmX99ZVQcdcTmMMuSN1mgMG0Md6KJcPNdVCQ0Qtpwn47Q2FeiusvHrqgLo1w/w400-h353/Civil%20War%20Soldiers.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><br /><div><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b>Remembering our distant cousin and the American Civil War Veteran, <i>Private Jay Cady Stanton, </i>late of Middleburgh, Schoharie
County, New York. On 15 Oct 1861, aged 33 Jay Stanton enlisted as a private soldier in the union military with the New York State Volunteers, Captain Swan's Company
H, 76th Infantry Regiment. As a direct-combat </b><b>infantry </b><b>union soldier (not serving "in-the-rear-with-the-gear"), Jay was mortally
wounded in action (MWIA) as his unit engaged against rebel forces
during the Battle of Gainsville, Virginia, on 28 August 1862. </b><b><i>Private Jay Cady Stanton</i></b><b> is interred at his hometown's Middleburgh Cemetery. RIP, your gallant services should long be remembered. </b></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b> </b></p></div>~__"DJ"__~http://www.blogger.com/profile/16538343712804412354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3263621249863051617.post-8818825247191135052022-06-21T09:51:00.003-04:002022-06-22T05:39:56.490-04:00Mrs. Pelsoi Explains Parliamentary Procedure<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I'm reminded of Winston Churchill's very fine statement:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">"Life is fraught with opportunities to keep your mouth shut."</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Click the below video to follow the thoughts of the person</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">second in line to replace the US president. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxO75aU99tUEezMT7LmTJlfuWqfQJtqKsGq2WyPCmo_cneXlmjue_t31DL0UjMeFBlAuD8eWlxRxSMKtN4bnA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The House Speaker speaks...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Should we laugh or should we cry? My gosh! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /> <p></p><p><br /></p>~__"DJ"__~http://www.blogger.com/profile/16538343712804412354noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3263621249863051617.post-2694028215525895502022-05-27T21:43:00.000-04:002022-05-27T21:43:30.312-04:00Memorial Day Observance at Arlington National Cemetery<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMn824jsw2ZJI3wlPVMzrJOsfgqep3X8elU8B6kv8yaBn3B4LZnVvlsLz7rrAVg8xK9PugA-caKJ1TdDA9KTVQWnpIVTn8O9s4fh7Af3E8pCAuaLwPU38WH12oS5w15g0RTRatPCaSLGfch1hLr_PDGfi-F9ffNKTsOr94Aj3uxRoKWP8Wi5fOLi8PWQ/s638/Memorial%20Day%20Remberance.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="621" data-original-width="638" height="389" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMn824jsw2ZJI3wlPVMzrJOsfgqep3X8elU8B6kv8yaBn3B4LZnVvlsLz7rrAVg8xK9PugA-caKJ1TdDA9KTVQWnpIVTn8O9s4fh7Af3E8pCAuaLwPU38WH12oS5w15g0RTRatPCaSLGfch1hLr_PDGfi-F9ffNKTsOr94Aj3uxRoKWP8Wi5fOLi8PWQ/w400-h389/Memorial%20Day%20Remberance.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><span style="background-color: #ffe599;"><br /></span></p><h1 align="center" style="color: #003f72; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 23px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.1; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><strong style="background-color: #ffe599;">National Memorial Day Observance at Arlington National Cemetery - May 30, 2022 at 12 pm ET</strong></h1><div><strong style="background-color: #ffe599;"><br /></strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #ffe599;"><b><span style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">WASHINGTON –</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> The nation’s 154th National Memorial Day Wreath-Laying and Observance Program to honor America’s fallen will be live-streamed from Arlington National Cemetery (ANC) at noon EDT, Monday, May 30.</span></b></span></div><div><span style="background-color: #ffe599; color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="background-color: #ffe599;"><b>To View The Ceremony Live Click <a href="https://www.dvidshub.net/webcast/28869" target="_blank">HERE</a></b></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></div>~__"DJ"__~http://www.blogger.com/profile/16538343712804412354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3263621249863051617.post-2127511132237268562022-05-08T05:57:00.003-04:002022-05-08T06:10:06.399-04:00A Cheerful Mother's Day Message <p> </p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdDabMKEXIlnKsLLSmYB_lsCLolpGRclUGMs7JfwYNpjDuZThkI8sVXaeGQcVlfTW79tCPuc-O-Kyg0nGEZhBQRgI8uwBLgwZDir3b1pCe860kP9T2d6kh6UZf7cw9bOfJyy_VWRK61hrS9nvPGDeuNxiRLQ9lVvII6kRZ2w0LUTfaywCR69djvDEz7g/s563/Happy%20Mothers%20Day.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="537" data-original-width="563" height="381" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdDabMKEXIlnKsLLSmYB_lsCLolpGRclUGMs7JfwYNpjDuZThkI8sVXaeGQcVlfTW79tCPuc-O-Kyg0nGEZhBQRgI8uwBLgwZDir3b1pCe860kP9T2d6kh6UZf7cw9bOfJyy_VWRK61hrS9nvPGDeuNxiRLQ9lVvII6kRZ2w0LUTfaywCR69djvDEz7g/w400-h381/Happy%20Mothers%20Day.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;">A Very </span><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Happy Mother's Day </span><span style="color: red;">This Respectful Day Is Wholeheartedly Extended To All Moms, Grandmas, Great-Grandmas, And Beyond. </span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;"> </span></span></b></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b style="color: red;">Many Thanks For All Those </b><b style="color: red;">Past And Present </b><b style="color: red;">Delightfully </b><b style="color: red;">Caring Activities Freely Given To Help Light Our Way. </b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b style="color: red;"><br /></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgWRkkenVDkdW6Gk61WnG0975elSMDNTfIgSh2Qxxc1KaaZ3Qcz0ZtWBqVMVxtwwDm6M3dYuR_XNsij89aNSMqNnpl3mejlmNz6sIsT0BZw6wYt0P5VrBdCOosnewHOVTupQszgqDHyc_OeTKuthXauJojjcpBF8wo3Do_8Oi-hacg5gqkKDV9n8vxIA/s356/Happy%20Heart.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="356" data-original-width="352" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgWRkkenVDkdW6Gk61WnG0975elSMDNTfIgSh2Qxxc1KaaZ3Qcz0ZtWBqVMVxtwwDm6M3dYuR_XNsij89aNSMqNnpl3mejlmNz6sIsT0BZw6wYt0P5VrBdCOosnewHOVTupQszgqDHyc_OeTKuthXauJojjcpBF8wo3Do_8Oi-hacg5gqkKDV9n8vxIA/w198-h200/Happy%20Heart.JPG" width="198" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><b style="color: red;"><br /></b></span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Free clipart provided by <a href="https://clipartix.com/" target="_blank">CLIPARTIX</a> </b></p><div class="sf left" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #555555; float: left; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.5px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><form action="https://clipartix.com/" class="fo fix" method="get" style="background: rgb(236, 236, 236); border-radius: 5px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 20px; padding: 3px; width: 375px; zoom: 1;"></form></div>~__"DJ"__~http://www.blogger.com/profile/16538343712804412354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3263621249863051617.post-48698596657702042022022-03-07T11:39:00.000-05:002022-03-07T11:39:26.788-05:00Several Robins Arrive On This Late Winter 2022 Day<p> <br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgBd36FYBRN1nrJ7WGftFX3nfNkVzrP0IbBCcy3EmAMI9SK-wDaxEWnHyZV8rBdkWkvoPJ0T0Mxsoo5CJddBWgR6YzIXOiWwv1lsukxCJBpd3SH9de64zQQ8vY4Q67uQSL2rR4ocb5ZDZVH366NW4ZtkI2MBqcvp6m9tCOlnk01I4YOMiDU6Rep3i9-yg=s2904" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1997" data-original-width="2904" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgBd36FYBRN1nrJ7WGftFX3nfNkVzrP0IbBCcy3EmAMI9SK-wDaxEWnHyZV8rBdkWkvoPJ0T0Mxsoo5CJddBWgR6YzIXOiWwv1lsukxCJBpd3SH9de64zQQ8vY4Q67uQSL2rR4ocb5ZDZVH366NW4ZtkI2MBqcvp6m9tCOlnk01I4YOMiDU6Rep3i9-yg=s320" width="320" /></a></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><i><b>Wide-angle view out the closed west door</b></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="text-align: left;">On March 7, 2022, AM, a tree full of Robins is noted roosting in a bare tree out our westward deck doorway. It is raining here in Central New York today and coupled with those mid-60s temperatures experienced in these parts yesterday, a good deal of our winter snows have disappeared. And with Spring </span><span style="text-align: left;">just around the corner, seems our fair-weather bird migration is underway -- a strongly welcome sight indeed.</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></b></div></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiKmj7kynqTgXdXs7E4yXXgsOX_JH5FPoUAH2Wh3Q_uvoCISBwsxqT1GQ1nlnS1jPitUHzD63CBgC5IZXlVVehGyb_DiWlfNW_0l-VVErrjl4BWHl9PSSpyCLjEiBfnPcSfHontWCCp-6XZet5Ahu9DDtRxCjwMuJeMqj-L-CQAUl361GXUthVfX1uQDg=s2684" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1669" data-original-width="2684" height="199" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiKmj7kynqTgXdXs7E4yXXgsOX_JH5FPoUAH2Wh3Q_uvoCISBwsxqT1GQ1nlnS1jPitUHzD63CBgC5IZXlVVehGyb_DiWlfNW_0l-VVErrjl4BWHl9PSSpyCLjEiBfnPcSfHontWCCp-6XZet5Ahu9DDtRxCjwMuJeMqj-L-CQAUl361GXUthVfX1uQDg=s320" width="320" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Closer image of nearly three dozen Robins</i></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Note:</u></b> Event not posted to Facebook -- Gave up Beer and Facebook for Lent! 😎</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p> </p>~__"DJ"__~http://www.blogger.com/profile/16538343712804412354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3263621249863051617.post-52532101428077902812022-02-17T08:48:00.017-05:002022-08-26T14:51:55.547-04:00True Costs And Real Worth Of Electric Vehicles <p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhrqhE2griTsOkiXPwDpV-JhwSDVH2IP089oU3K4_sBsQUeJqG_BzbRP9MwSIQDzn-BYESQThqdW5BOUx4bmBWSwPkONLKogbrem7dZzPykY0Jk6KVFVV5hdvE1hEtYBluHPtyUb5uqeAeIH0YctCfrbg6EJVhLqgoovBcFek3DvZCeXTWBD6f4vDEC8A=s631" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="241" data-original-width="631" height="153" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhrqhE2griTsOkiXPwDpV-JhwSDVH2IP089oU3K4_sBsQUeJqG_BzbRP9MwSIQDzn-BYESQThqdW5BOUx4bmBWSwPkONLKogbrem7dZzPykY0Jk6KVFVV5hdvE1hEtYBluHPtyUb5uqeAeIH0YctCfrbg6EJVhLqgoovBcFek3DvZCeXTWBD6f4vDEC8A=w400-h153" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Free clipart from ecteezy<span style="text-align: left;"> </span></div><p></p><p><br /></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">I
have not done rigorous due diligence on the true value of this electric
vehicle issue. If basic physics is correctly recalled, whenever energy is converted from one form to another form high-efficiency losses happen... this process of transduction is inefficient basically due to friction (in heat losses).
Just an old retired guy with another rant -- can't personally do
anything to resolve the issue anyway. Got to admit I do wonder about
the electric vehicle solution. What is the truth in the entire "energy
efficiency cycle" as applied to the gas/oil/propane-powered
vehicles vs electric vehicles question? Where does the electricity
come from used to charge batteries and do the future recharges? Those sparks come from thin air I guess. Who does these total electric
justification calculations anyway – is this authority an independent body (non-political)? Seems a
significant percent of power grid electricity production comes from burning fossil fuels, and certainly a substantial majority percentage of
electricity production is fossil related when nuclear is included. How is transduction inefficiency factored into electricity
production/delivery estimates of the true cost of electric vehicles?
Additional demands on the national power grid are a certainty with a
growing number of electric vehicles – no genius here, it's simply common
sense. The power grid is already there, so there is no cost for the increased electrical demand associated with necessary and frequent electric vehicle battery recharge. Is it correct that increased national electrical grid expenses are not passed on to the electric vehicle owner who is directly responsible for the aggregate national electrical demand increase? And who among electric vehicle owners will pay for the upkeep of American roads and highways currently funded by taxes on petroleum fuel products? </span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">And
too, the entire issue of what is done with the occasional
non-functional new batteries or older non-functional batteries, or those
older battery replacements that are past their mean-time-between-failure? Old batteries are toxic waste. Are battery manufacturers
being held accountable and responsible NOW for the eventual disposal
of old or non-functioning batteries? Probably a small portion of old
batteries can be recycled (but at what cost?) -- is that unknown cost
reasonably estimated and factored into the true cost of charging electric
vehicles? Sure hope the battery manufacturers and those who use them
are planning to dig a giant hole somewhere (hopefully in China) to
bury these old battery toxins. Are those disposal funds now
being set aside in an untouchable lockbox somewhere to cover these future non-functional battery disposal costs? Planning for the future is required now -- and
setting requirements aside to cover predictable future costs is
necessary now. Oh well, we will all be dust in a few years -- why be
concerned? Or is it the future general population's tax-base responsibility for toxic waste disposal -- no doubt paid by federal grants
authorized by the public-sector Politically Correct clean energy enablers -- spending now our
descendant's future dollars? </span>
</p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></p><p>
</p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Granted, </span><span style="font-size: 17.3333px;">at some point, i</span><span style="font-size: 13pt; text-align: left;">t
may make sense to buy a small electric vehicle to
make short runs to the shop, for entertainment, etc. But when that 400+
mile trip is in the cards, travelers might need good old
petroleum-fired vehicles to reach that final destination. The same
related questions exist on the worth of those rides equipped with
both electric & gas capability. Just what are the true electric vehicle savings
and associated impact on future environmental costs? </span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><br /></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><br /></span></p>~__"DJ"__~http://www.blogger.com/profile/16538343712804412354noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3263621249863051617.post-39138790346371217962022-02-01T07:39:00.002-05:002022-02-01T07:42:31.455-05:00Freedom Day 2022, A Day To Forever Remember <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh8yoeJv5e9CRYYcDE8z38Y1-0px0PArp52WapgK0RYzU9NVL5fYJwRPchiPfBM0e6CZzy5YE38zg2YdbAFcWLtR3GJbof8qm-Zggo5Mmf35JRhaVVkpzBNA-PzzFOdjy68uredZ35IjUBmQf7SuFlCa7QfKeLkAt-kNzxck8uqrY-DvVKmRJyYulmFvw=s1438" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1438" data-original-width="986" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh8yoeJv5e9CRYYcDE8z38Y1-0px0PArp52WapgK0RYzU9NVL5fYJwRPchiPfBM0e6CZzy5YE38zg2YdbAFcWLtR3GJbof8qm-Zggo5Mmf35JRhaVVkpzBNA-PzzFOdjy68uredZ35IjUBmQf7SuFlCa7QfKeLkAt-kNzxck8uqrY-DvVKmRJyYulmFvw=w274-h400" width="274" /></a></div><br /><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Why
am I not surprised? Google, you are an American company! NO mention
is found this morning citing the day's significance on Google's
opening home page... instead Google chooses to celebrate the lunar
new year. Today in United States of America history, February
1<sup>st</sup> is <i><b>National Freedom Day</b></i> – an
anniversary remembrance and celebration signed into existence by
President Harry Truman. Give 'em Hell Harry! On February 1, 1865, Republican President Abe Lincoln signed the resolution that
permitted what would become the Thirteenth Amendment to our United
States Constitution.</span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><br /></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Let me refresh </span><span style="font-size: 17.3333px;">Google</span><span style="font-size: 17.3333px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13pt; text-align: left;">management's memory and what seems to be the memory of a majority of American
citizens. Remember this now: </span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 13pt; text-align: left;"><br /></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><b>Amendment
XIII</b> “<b>Section 1</b>. <i>Neither slavery nor involuntary
servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall
have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or
any place subject to their jurisdiction.” </i> </span>
</p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p><p>
</p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">President
Lincoln's action on this 1865 day forever codified and ended slavery in the United States
as long as we have a U.S. Constitution... an immensely significant
day in American history<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">. </span><span style="color: #33244a;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><b>WE THE PEOPLE</b> of the United States... should each be thankful for the many freedoms we are
afforded as citizens of our very fine country! Forget this freedom, or how freedom was won, and our freedom will continue to melt away.</span></span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span style="color: #33244a;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></span></span></p>~__"DJ"__~http://www.blogger.com/profile/16538343712804412354noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3263621249863051617.post-34733590549094720712022-01-22T09:30:00.003-05:002022-02-04T12:30:08.685-05:00Another Fine Song (easy) For The Beginner Baritone Ukulele Player, Dylan's Knockin' On Heaven's Door<p> </p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
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<p align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">“<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><i><b>Knockin'
On Heaven's Door”</b></i></span></span></p><p align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15pt;"><b>Written
and performed by Bob Dylan,</b></span></span></span></p><p align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15pt;"><b>featured in the 1973 movie </b></span></span></span>
</p><p align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;">“<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15pt;"><i><b>Pat
Garrett & Billy The Kid.” </b></i></span></span></span>
</p><p align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15pt;"><i><b>Also a 1990 single release by Dylan.</b></i></span></span></span></p><p align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15pt;"><i><b> (No CAPO) </b></i></span></span></span>
</p><p align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16pt;">G D Am7 / C
(alternate) | x4</b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #ff3333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15pt;"><b>G D Am7</b></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15pt;"><b>Mama
take this badge off of me</b></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #ff3333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15pt;"><b>G D C</b></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15pt;"><b>I
can't use it any-more</b></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #ff3333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15pt;"><b>G D Am7</b></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15pt;"><b>It's
getting dark, too dark to see</b></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #ff3333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15pt;"><b>G D C</b></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15pt;"><b>Feel
I'm knockin' on heaven's door</b></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #ff3333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15pt;"><b>G D Am7</b></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15pt;"><b>Knock-knock-knockin'
on heaven's door </b></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #ff3333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15pt;"><b>G D C</b></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15pt;"><b>Knock-knock-knockin'
on heaven's door</b></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #ff3333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15pt;"><b>G D Am7</b></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15pt;"><b>Knock-knock-knockin'
on heaven's door, </b></span></span>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #ff3333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15pt;"><b>G D C</b></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15pt;"><b>Knock-knock-knockin'
on heaven's door.</b></span></span></p>
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</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #ff3333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15pt;"><b>G D Am7</b></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15pt;"><b>Mama
put my guns in the ground</b></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #ff3333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15pt;"><b>G D C</b></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15pt;"><b>I
can't shoot them any-more</b></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #ff3333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15pt;"><b>G D Am7</b></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15pt;"><b>That
long black cloud is comin' down</b></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #ff3333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15pt;"><b>G D C</b></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15pt;"><b>I
feel I'm knockin' on heaven's door</b></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
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</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #ff3333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15pt;"><b>G D </b></span></span></span><span style="color: #ff3333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15pt;"><b>Am7</b></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15pt;"><b>Knock-knock-knockin'
on heaven's door </b></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #ff3333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15pt;"><b>G D C</b></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15pt;"><b>Knock-knock-knockin'
on heaven's door</b></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #ff3333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15pt;"><b>G D </b></span></span></span><span style="color: #ff3333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15pt;"><b>Am7</b></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15pt;"><b>Knock-knock-knockin'
on heaven's door, </b></span></span>
</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #ff3333;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15pt;"><b>G D C</b></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15pt;"><b>Knock-knock-knockin'
on heaven's door. </b></span></span>
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</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15pt;"><b>Oh-Ohh,
</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15pt;"><b>yeah-yeah</b></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
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</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><b>G D Am7 / C (alternate) |
x2</b></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><b>To play with Dylan on YouTube click <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rm9coqlk8fY" target="_blank">HERE</a></b></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><br /></span></span></span></p>~__"DJ"__~http://www.blogger.com/profile/16538343712804412354noreply@blogger.com0